skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fizzbuzz was never meant to represent anything useful; it's an intentionally trivial problem used to quickly filter out unqualified candidates. In the words of its inventor, "this sort of question won’t identify great programmers, but it will identify the weak ones":

https://archive.is/Ybnm
While I generally agree with that, the problem is teams, mixes of skill levels, and future time constraints. There's no guarantee the person doing the second implementation knows about the first one, realizes they can be pulled into a better abstraction, or has the time to do it. On the flipside, it's possible the other person (or the first person with more experience) comes up with something better than the first possible version of abstraction. So it ends up being a trade-off you have to decide on at the start, rather than a simple rule, based on team experience and how big (or small [0]) the abstraction actually us.

[0] https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
Just like how many companies have methods available to them to remove bad glassdoor reviews (or make fake 5-star reviews), this system is even more rife for abuse.
I'm still waiting for the AI service that turns those 10 minute videos into a text tutorial with photos.

I think it's pretty damning that it's not a built in YouTube feature by now.
> That's pretty severe if your entire income is from said platform

But that is also pretty dumb to base your entire income in a platform that can delete your account for any reason at any point in time.
The basic problem is it says reduce "by 1,500 - 1,800" rather than "to 1,500 - 1,800" (not that that answer is much better). Yes, it's a garbage question, but the first answer is unsafe in all circumstances. The simplest solution here is to show nothing.
Am I understanding you right that you believe that homelessness would decrease if it were easier to evict people?

This strikes me as one of those gasoline on the fire suggestions. Made me laugh though! I never get perspectives like this anywhere but HN.

I think self interest being what it is, easier evictions would raise rents.
The hiring teams are employed. If they aren't in a position to fix the dynamics then nobody can. HR enjoys a vaulted position under which their suffering KPIs allow them to point their fingers at the market and shrug the blame from their shoulders . It isn't like they are going to suddenly band together and boycott AI. We've all had our sip from the fountain of eternal laziness and now we all want more.
Today I had a better experience with Google than with ChatGPT.

I started with chat and asked why I couldn’t change the passcode on a kid's device.

I tried 3 answers. None worked.

So I google. First hit is an Apple forum with the exact problem. Solved.
You can sign a petition against the change here : https://www.change.org/p/let-s-preserve-viollet-le-duc-s-sta...
FIDE looks a lot more foolish having the greatest and most famous chess player reject them over a dispute about clothing.

Also, he looked very sharp in his outfit with the jeans. Frankly it was a better ensemble than I’d look in one of my suits.
I've done this. It can be hit or miss. Get a great team with a strong lead and you'll love them. Unfortunately there's quite a bit of opportunity over there so once you've trained them up, they're always looking for their next (better paying) gig with their new skills. It's rare if folks last past a year on your team.
Doing a real service to humanity.

Also - those shoes are ugly. Yet, I would not think twice about appropriateness. Would seem fine to wear to work, a funeral, or a state function.
Or similarly, how he was accused of 'bringing the game of snooker into disrepute' by taking a shot with his left hand (and then playing three perfect games left-handed)
http://en.espn.co.uk/snooker/sport/player/1241.html
> IBM (don't ask)

Lol I dipped out of further consideration once they sent me what the interview process was gonna be like. Like 6 rounds, whiteboard coding, leetcode crap, "behavioral" interviews, a talk with some pencil pushers and some extra stuff. I don't know how desperate you have to be to put up with that.
It doesn't know enough books.

Prompt: "HE HAD BEEN EATING THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE SEVENTY years of his life; and for the last twenty, he had been trying to eat the valley."

No relevant results.
The smaller scale in the past made it so managers either knew (at least by reputation) the person submitting the resume, or it was not too expensive to find out. Nowadays, jobs are getting 100x as many applications, most of which are far lower in quality.

University admissions has followed a similar trend, going from 5–10 being "spray and pray" twenty years ago to 20–30 applications nowadays. However, it didn't increase as much because (1) each application costs money, and (2) most universities expect a cover letter. It still costs quite a bit to filter the applicants, but the fee helps pay for that.
It's a trick. If you donate something to charity you can write it off the taxes. After IPOs most new billionaires did it, including Zuk. It's enough to just promise it publicly. There is no time limit, it can take years to 'donate', but writing off is immediate. To optimize it even further they create their own dummy charities full of friends and relatives.
My thoughts from ~ 6 weeks ago:

>> This is the toughest market I've ever seen. I easily made it to on-sites at FAANG a few years ago and now I'm getting resume rejected by no-name startups (and FAANG). The bar has also been raised significantly. I had an interview recently where I solved the algorithm question very quickly, but didn't refactor/clean up my code perfectly and was rejected.

I've since landed one decent offer, but mostly got lucky (the sys design interview was about an obscure optimization problem that I specialized in for years - though I didn't let on that fact)

Between that time, I failed multiple interviews (always solving the question, but never quickly or cleanly enough).

Companies are incredibly slow to respond back (up to 4 weeks from time of application to first interaction with a recruiter).

Some companies are incredibly demanding (recruiter screen -> tech screen -> tech screen -> take-home test -> group discussion about take-home test -> behavioral / culture interview).

Don't think it's about race. It's just an employers' market. And if you refuse to jump through the hoops, somebody else will.

For reference, the last company on my resume is a top tier company that every recruiter has heard of.
100%, this is a natural reaction to the situation companies have created. When you get a rejection response mere minutes after submission that claims "after careful consideration..." then of course I'm not going to spend any more time than that applying to any jobs anymore. Prove a human actually took the time to review my resume and I'll actually apply to your company like a human.
In my experience that's not limited to chatGPT, all of the LLM tools seem worthless to me.
Have we traded the cathedral for the bazaar?
> But "search" and "getting an answer to a question" are two different things, aren't they?

Google exists, as both a successful enterprise and as a verb, precisely because to most people they are exactly the same thing.

No, this is wrong. People ask what they want to know. Sometimes the best answer is a link. Sometimes it's just an answer. The ability to intuit which is best is what makes products in this space worth making.
I use doom too. It’s slow vs VSC for me and doesn’t have a lot of code intelligence actions easily accessible. The LSPs are great for languages I code in, Go and Python.
So basically Indian TV serial where instead of facial expressions and other action, actors/actress think out loud. Good for low IQ and average people.
Agreed. So many times I have to put Wikipedia or Reddit behind my search to get anything useful out of google. So it can work. Google is clearly prioritizing junk over value
just based off the title: yeah sure, or make new friends?
and not going to be our problem for much longer, 2028-2030 can’t come fast enough

the US is selectively getting involved in worldwide conflicts to deter China from invading China, and its awkward, with arduous contrived rationales to maintain its people’s support

and once we get stateside semiconductors at low enough nanometers we wont have to do any of that any more

I cant wait

good thing there are 185 other countries that could care if they really did. this wont be controversial to point out, in the future. it will be a time period that made little sense.
Since we're citing European trains, let's also cite European airports - I can arrive to the airport for an EU flight 20 minutes before take off and still have plenty of time to get everything sorted out. And I'm out of the airport within 15 minutes after landing - usually stepping right into a subway or something. I don't think it's such a huge margin if you fix your airports, which is going to be many orders of magnitude cheaper than building high speed rail from everywhere to everywhere.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/800/cpsprodpb/db4b/live/61d6...

His outfit is sharp as hell Fwiw
Yes, we reached peak tech employment. The market was flooded with job openings from a decade-plus of endlessly increasing VC funding. So a lot of not-technically-inclined people took bootcamps and entered the job market, and for a while there was enough jobs. But with VC funding slowly drying up, and a shaky economy, all those excess jobs are gone. But there's still a ton of people trying to get the jobs.

I have two decades of experience and even I have a really hard time getting an interview. I feel like there's just too many people with my skillset and not that much demand for it [anymore]. Salaries for new jobs have gone down and there's fewer remote positions [thanks, braindead CEOs].
Hi! I'm the OP from the Level1Techs thread.

That HDMI power has some grunt behind it. During power-off state with that 1.90v phantom voltage, I put a 48ohm resistor between 3V3 and ground, the phantom voltage only dropped to 1.80v, and the SSD still didn't work when I powered the machine back on.
their podcast integration works. it's not amaaazing but no issues with it.

the migration from Google Play Music was pretty uneventful for me. (i assume folks with huge uploaded libraries might not share this impression.)
Given that he removed himself from the World Chess Championship, the thought that he needs a pretext to pull out of lesser competitions is ludicrous.
I've had situations where a reapplication to the same spot (with the same resume/details) I got auto-rejected from would yield an acceptance.

I blame all the ASTs and companies that fail to give any feedback whatsoever other than a generic "We went another way". If you can't give people the 5 minutes of effort of looking over their resume, why do you expect them to respect your time instead?
I'd prefer an application to automatically fill in my data in those junk ATS systems, such as WorkDay, that pretend to parse my LinkedIn profile or a PDF resume and inevitably makes me do all the copy-paste twice.

A couple of years ago it was so bad that I stopped applying as soon as I saw that WorkDay crap pop up, regardless of the company.
Lay it on thicker, I can still see some daylight.

Hey kids, look how the Russian propaganda works : they are the victims! And the mean Ukrainians were going to invade them with a first strike! This is gaslighting and victim blaming.
I also find it hard to sympathize. This is an industry that is notorious for emailing software developers with irrelevant job offers.

We know from the irrelevant offers that many professionals have automated the processes for casting a net. How it is a problem if individuals do that in reverse?
Exploring Alternatives to UUIDv4; Enter ULIDs
So a USA player can wear blue jeans?
if google’s AI overview were as smart as 4o, i would like it a lot more.
I've searched for sources that break it down instead of just looking at United States GDP but also remember, states/counties can only capture income from sources that fall under that state/county. For example, immigrant worker enables bigger salaries for Tyson Food HQ people in Springdale, Arkansas but Tyson Food Plant in upstate New York means county/state in New York is absorbing that burden without getting taxes from Springdale, Arkansas people.

So sure, the entire US GDP and thus taxes is extremely reliant on these workers but who sees the benefits is not uniform throughout the country and thus the friction around immigration.
I don't understand why you would bring mentions of LGBT, pride flags or misogyny into this?

These stained glasses are replacing relatively modern, abstract geometric patterns from the 19th century with figurative religious imagery on the theme of the Pentecost.

I can understand why people don't like it, but... evil?

The Nazis by the way, intended to destroy Notre Dame together with the rest of Paris.
Goodbye Google. Hello Ecosia
> I've been trying hard to break my 10 year-old of the habit of just typing questions into search engines

Honest question: why?

I understand not wanting to use Google (the search engine) or not wanting to support Google (the company). But I don't see with the issue with just looking up questions.

I'm 10 years younger than you, and I've been reaching for search engines first since I was 7, I think. Basically since I learned how to turn the computer on and open a web browser.
Piling on, but I wanted to find a song I had once heard when I was a kid. I did not know the exact lyrics, just that it was woman talking about her husband leaving for space. I had tried to find the song using regular search engines multiple times over the years. Eerily (a little over a year ago, using GPT3.5), I was able to find the song within about 15 minutes of prompting with various pieces of information including tone, topic, and rough year I heard the song. (The song was "Clouds across the moon" from the Rah band.)
They have something Google never had: a paid tier.

There are plenty of revenue models aside from ads.
While you're right about average density, there are some spots with much higher density population that could certainly benefit from high speed train.
With that said, an LLM to a) generate a LONG-list and b) help you zero in on your short-list; is something I would pay for.
I think the security scares in Linux over the last few years, particularly with the xzutils incident, have shown that The Cathedral and the Bazaar has a significant amount of wishful thinking.

It turns out that most open source projects don’t have any more eyeballs than those paid or volunteering to work on the code, in which case, the gap between open and proprietary isn’t very large at all. Because most open source maintainers aren’t paid, you could even argue there are less good eyeballs than proprietary software.

I’m with Nikolai Bezroukov; who called it a fundamentally broken document decades ago; with many of its assertions based on a pseudo-religious faith.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/708/61...
> By default Node.js will execute only files that contain no TypeScript features that require transformation, such as enums or namespaces.

There is a further switch, not yet switched on by default, that performs these transformations.
i think if anything by google actively penalizes long slip articles with lots of affiliate links
Also there's going to be very little sympathy if people who have been earning 6-7 figure salaries working in their pajamas for the past decade are now going through a rough patch.
Ask HN: If you had to look for a job in a different industry what would it be?
agreed and frankly I am a big fan of LLMs in general… it just doesn’t seem like the one behind google search is all that smart
I don't think it will be as easy to supplant google search as it was in the past with Yahoo and Alta Vista. In the past internet search was just starting we were all used to trying different search engine and the results were different enough with all the different ways of indexing and searching that moving from 1 to another made a difference. Most of the people using the internet were a bit of pioneers navigating through something brand new and unique.

Today majority of the internet users ie 10-32 years old or 60%+ of the internet users grew up with using Google and how to get best answers our of it. Chat gpt might bring in some churn but as long google is close enough it won't get replaced easily.
Thank you for the info! I recall looking at the available tools and thought that neither scratched my itch of flexible interactive filtering filtering and flexible interactive visualization. Great tools for either one, but not for both. But I will give xarray another look.
Representing the natural number n by a set of size n turns out to be rather useful. And the obvious choice for a set of n elements is the representations of the n natural numbers 0..n-1.
The critical distinction here is that the employer pays, not the applicant. This direction works, that's roughly how all job boards work if you squint, but if it was the applicant paying, the incentives would be opposing.
Yeah the process these days is insane. I went through 4 rounds of interviews with one company, did really well and was expecting an offer but they want me to come in for a full day of onsite work mixed in with more technical rounds.

I’m interviewing with like 10 companies right now and it feels like a full time job, I have full days of interviews lined up for almost every day in the first 3 weeks on January.
> If my life ends up being begging (actual begging), hunting for scraps, using alleys as toilets, I think I'd be using drugs in fairly short order to help numb the pain of that existence.

A lot of what I've read indicates that the causality runs that way in a lot of cases - people get high to escape the reality of their surroundings.

The south has lower rates of homelessness not because people are mentally healthier there, but because housing is cheaper.
And, god forbid, meta-issues like long-term cashflow planning when you're making big changes to your internal organizations and processes, which lets you worry less about funding. And/but investing in complex thinking about operations is part of the book's thesis.
Like when? Without a clear cut example where they admit it, this is just a rumor. Why would they break their rule?
…i’m no fan of the google AI feature but it is way more accurate than the scraped bullet point predecessor which would often scrape things while missing something key like a “here is the opposite of what we are talking about:” in the webpage
How to effectively refine engineering strategy
Funny thing is you can train a small BERT model to detect queries that are in categories that aren’t ready for AI “answers” with like .00000001% of the energy of an LLM.
A high percentage of public housing is not the only solution to limit rent prices: any non-market housing is often enough to keep the prices down, although public housing is the most proeminent across the world, associative housing work very well, and can be taken from existing stock (friends of mine inherited 4 appartments and let them be rented by an association, a sort of 20 years free lease where the only obligation for the association is to take care of the renovations and keeping the appartments appliances up to date).
20 years ago?
Yeah, Tauri would be great. But I think it will take quite some time until the fundamental rendering performance issues [1] under Linux can be fixed. There seem to be rough plans to bundle CEF on Linux [2], but AFAICS this seems to be only a discussion at this point.

[1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988
[2] https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064
The word "anglo" is so fraught that I think it's probably less useful to try to argue about what it means than it would be to just leave it alone.

I'm actually here to point out that the U.S. had the world's largest GDP as early as 1890, or as late as 1913, depending on your source of data and how it's estimated. So, WWII isn't the origin of that. We can now argue about whether GDP is a good indicator, but before doing that I'd ask for a better one (with historical data) to be suggested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Maddison_statistics_of_t...
Uber saves lives – Adam Smith Institute
An answer is only as good as the expertise behind it. When searching I always pay attention to the source, and will skip ones that look less trustworthy.

One major advantage of Google's original pagerank was that originally it worked well and number of links to a page was a good proxy for trustworthiness and authority on a subject. It used to be that you'd find what you were looking for in the top few Google search results, which was a massive improvement to Alta Vista which was the existing competition where you'd have to wade though pages of keyword match sites listed in no particular order.

Anyway, source is critically important, and if I'm looking to find something authoritative then the output of an LLM, even if RAG based, is not what I'm looking for! Increasingly people may be looking to search to verify stuff suggested by an LLM, which makes a search engine that puts LLM output as it's top result rather unhelpful!

It doesn't help that with Google in particular their AI output is all heavily DEI biased, and who knows what else ... I just don't trust it as objective.
I thought the same as I was reading the comment you're responding to. Arriving rested after public transport? Get a load of that guy :) Not sure how anyone does that, but of course it would be nice to learn this dark magic.
A reputation score is only a blacklist if you target specific people to tank their reputations.
Advice from an old guy that went through this after moving to a new area and loosing my phat California income eventually. If you aren't working, pickup consulting gigs. They will probably suck and be high stress low reward, but it will help you build connections locally. Look for ones that don't just need a body but that really need help so you are in a position where your work is visible. Heck once I got in most of the 'come in and clean up our mess' jobs wanted to hire me to manage their teams/projects. Not ideal but it paid well and I have a pretty limited pool of bog standard dev work (or worse, internal IT dev) where I live anyways.
do you feel that employers in your home country should also follow this rubric?
I think I can see why... But the obvious question to me becomes:

- What do the operations of addition and multiplication look like with this structure? Doesn't this seem a bit complex?
Unfortunate but true.
LLM are non deterministic by nature.
The rise and fall of the vector database infrastructure category
Tracks with what I've seen from other companies that tout their accounting AI/automation. Never measures up .I was never a customer - did Bench overpromise to their customers directly? They always struck me as the most human from the outside.
I had a similar experience last week. Searched and searched for a blurb from Middlemarch, without luck. o1 returned exactly what I was hoping for in one fell swoop.
I already regularly am helping someone with something, they'll Google it at the same time as me and they'll authoritatively regurgitate the AI summary. More often than not, it's been misleading, or a partial answer to the point of being detrimental.

I get it though. I sort of am the news guy of my family and they constantly ask me where I go for news. It's an impossible answer. I grew up with the internet in it's early days, using it for policy debate research. It's a non-precise method of consuming various sources, judging their answers on plausibility and commonalities, and a healthy dose of constant skepticism.

But people don't want that. They want the answer spoodfed to them.